This precious rare work has bluish-purplish hues instead of the artist-musician Ismail Mat Hussin’s more common palette of orange and brown. Like Khalil Ibrahim, he picked up the rudiments at the Padang Garong School in 1954-1955, but unlike Khalil, he was not college-trained and counted Khalil as one of his mentors. Like Khalil too, he painted the East Coast fishermen but with his tjanting (a batik tool), the great camaraderie of the kampong people, men and women, when coming ashore. Here, the artist created a striking composition of fisherfolk mending nets, focusing on soft glimmering light to bring out the evening atmosphere as the sun begins to set. Although self-taught, Ismail Mat Hussin worked as a graphic designer cum illustrator at Syarikat Percetakan Dian in Kota Baru from 1979-1991, but had been painting virtually full time since 1968. He was a member of Peseni (Persatuan Senilukis Kelantan) and the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia. He was qualified in music with a Grade V certificate in violin from the Royal School of Music in London, and worked part-time at Radio-Televisyen Malaysia Kota Baru. He also painted in watercolours, but his batiks fetch higher prices. A similar work done in 2008 with the size of 96 x 186cm was sold for RM140,000 in the Henry Butcher Art Auction March 2019 edition.